Open Jerusalem: Cornerstone for World Peace - My / Our contribution

[Funda Oral]

In the last 2 months, i stopped reading newspapers to protect the health of 
my mind.

But i still follow some summaries.

I am reading that Gazze is like a "hell" Israel is bombing the city.

Israel is giving the electricity only 2 hours.

People don't have food, water and medicine.

I hope we find power and courage to get over....to build peace...........

Funda

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael M Pannwitz" <mmpanne at boscop.de>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 5:56 PM
Subject: Open Jerusalem: Cornerstone for World Peace - My / Our contribution


> Dear Filiz and you others,
> I was involved in it as the facilitator together with Yaari, Anna,Dominik 
> and Vera (essentially the same team we had at the meeting of 200+ Imams 
> and Rabbis earlier this year in Sevilla, you can see all of them in the 
> open space world map).
> The conference started Sunday July 2nd and closed on Thursday morning, 
> July 6. The open space part began on Monday afternoon and closed on 
> Wednesday evening.
> There were 8 breakout sessions (which made it the longest os I ever 
> facilitated), 40 issues, 34 reports and 30 action proposals with concrete 
> steps...all in all a normal os-event.
> There were about 20 Israelis and 20 Palestinians and 60+ people from other 
> places interested in Peace in that region.
> People in attendance from the region like Avner Haramati from Israel and 
> Carol Daniel-Kasbari from Palestine could tell you more about what 
> happened there and what it means...I just experienced the normal peaceful 
> process of open space with lots of excited people.
> The call for someone to coordinate all of this is both common and at the 
> same time an issue that the person feeling this call can follow through 
> on. In fact, some got together and had a pretty well worked out plan 
> including the financing to create an internet platform to do just that.
>
> One participant summed it up in the Closing Circle (similarly to what ho 
> observed and recorded in "The Practice of Peace" at the gathering in Rome 
> a couple of years ago)with the words:
> "Everyday looking at the reports on television, listening to the radio, 
> reading the newspapers windows to hell open up for me. Here a window to 
> heaven opened."
> The productive, peaceful quality of this event in the face of what happens 
> in the war zones many participants came from is a miracle.
>
> Since there was an agreement not to take pictures and not to produce a 
> book of proceedings and not to copy the action proposals participants now 
> will rely on their ingenuity and their selforganized very detailed contact 
> list to continue the work.
>
> Greetings from Berlin getting ready to fire up the barbecue for 3 of my 
> grandchildren visiting ....
> See you in Moscow in 3 weeks
> mmp
>
> Filiz Telek wrote:
>> Apparently there was another “open space” for middle east peace..anyone 
>> was involved in it?
>>
>>  Monday, 10 July 2006
>>
>> To all Peace Workers;
>>
>> the  conference at the Lasalle-Institute "Jerusalem, City of Peace" has 
>> finished. For three long days about 120 people met, guided and 
>> accompanied by the method of "open space" in order to communicate about 
>> visions, possible projects, and new possibilities of cooperation. 
>> Considering the urgency of the current situation it is debatable whether 
>> the methods of „open space“ can achieve satisfactory result. “Open space” 
>> is able to start the activity and the dialogue among the participants, 
>> but then I was missing the coordinating, co-guiding element, the person 
>> who keeps the overview and participates form there in a guiding way. For 
>> me the extraordinary quality of the conference consisted in the fact that 
>> people gathered  who won’t meet normally. It belongs to the consistent 
>> method of the representatives of the Lasalle-Institute that they want to 
>> initiate the change on government level as well as on the level of 
>> projects which are working at the very basis. A big thanks goes to Pater 
>> Niklaus Brantschen, Anna Gamma and Pia Gyger for their tireless and 
>> unconditional commitment for peace in the Middle East.
>> Results of the conference: new contacts were made, architectural models 
>> for Jerusalem as a world city of peace were presented. The film “We 
>> Refuse to be Enemies” was presented and found good resonance. Letters to 
>> decisive representatives of governments and religions were worded in 
>> order to declare Jerusalem a weapon-free zone. My impression is that many 
>> peace workers do not yet see how much we must change structures and 
>> systems and to what extend we are challenged to develop new functioning 
>> models. Would the world evolve as much about peace as it just evolved 
>> about football, we were for sure on the winners’ side. This is the focus 
>> for which we from the Healing
>> Biotope I participated. With patience and persistence we direct our 
>> perseverance and our continual work to this point again and again. In me 
>> it causes the radicalisation to reinforce my commitment for the 
>> humanization of money and to set off for my way to motivate business 
>> people to invest their
>> money in the development of models for peace villages. With the amount of 
>> money that one tank costs we could do powerful steps of manifestation in 
>> the global peace movement. The developing peace villages would be 
>> something like the points of crystallization and energy accelerators to 
>> make one perspective of the peace movement visible. I phrased a new 
>> pilgrim-text that I want to send out in the Ring of Power this time. May 
>> it be heard by the relevant forces.
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